=== FadeOut-Thumbshots ===
Contributors: CupRacer
Donate link: http://www.mynakedgirlfriend.de/
Tags: image, plugin, thumbshot, preview, tooltip, thumbnail
Requires at least: 2.9
Tested up to: 3.0.1
Stable tag: 2.0

This plugin dynamically shows a preview tooltip for hyperlinks on your WordPress site.


== Description ==

This plugin displays thumbnails for hyperlinks that exist on a Wordpress page.
It's configurable whether you'd like to preview all, only external or specially
marked hyperlinks.

This plugin uses the thumbshots of http://fadeout.de, a pretty cool site
which offers the thumbnail service for free.

For the tooltip effect a library called "jQuery Tooltip" is used (currently v1.3).
Find more about it here: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/

UPDATE 2010-08-09:
I got a lot of responses relating to new features and I'm already planning the implementations.
So thanks for your feedback and stay tuned for more news to arrive. :-)


== Installation ==

1. Upload the directory 'fadeout' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Make your settings through the 'Settings' menu in WordPress

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Why does it take a couple of mouse hovers to get the link image to appear? =

It's not a bug - it's a mechanism.
The plugin doesn't generate the thumbnails directly. The script sends a request for the thumbnail to the service of http://fadeout.de. If the URL is requested for the first time, it'll be put in a queue - and you see a "coming soon". After a few moments the thumbnail is created at fadeout.de, so if you hover the link, the request for the thumbnail is successful and it's served and shown correctly.


== Screenshots ==

1. This screenshot shows the tooltip preview which is shown while holding the mouse cursor over the WordPress.org hyperlink.


== Changelog ==

= 2.0 =
* Added an option to choose the fading direction of the images (right = big to small / left = small to big).

= 1.999 =
* Added an option to define where the javascript code should be placed on a page (in html head tag or the footer).
* Added an input field for page IDs to limit the plugin to only explicitely defined pages. This is a very basic version at the moment.

= 1.99 =
* Changed a variable name which caused trouble with the start page definition (Thx Frank)

= 1.9 =
* Added new config option for a localized dummy tooltip (de = "Thumbshot wird erstellt"; en = "coming soon").

= 1.8 =
* Set thumbnail border to "none" because of some buggy css stylesheets.
* Added a filter, so that only http* links are previewed automatically when the setting "external" or "all" is set. (Thx Bernhard)

= 1.7 =
* Deleted a needless whitespace character that might have caused some problems with other plugins.
* Created some better background images (the tooltip border images). I hope you'll like them.

= 1.4 =
* Changed opacity from 0.8 to 0.9 for a better image representation.
* Added option to adjust the tooltip opacity.
* Corrected a padding value (at scaling 180px × 212px).

= 1.3 =
* Added the possibility to choose from different tooltip sizes.

= 1.2 =
* Surrounded the wp_head() function with the plugins_loaded() method
  to avoid some issues regarding the "headers already sent" error.
* Added a default configuration.

= 1.1 =
* corrected a dumb mistake (plugin path)

= 1.0 =
* This is the initial version.


== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.1 =
None.

= 1.0 =
None.